The King's England: Devon: Cradle of our Seamen
by MEE, ARTHUR (Ed)
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Hodder & Stoughton 1938. First edition, ex library, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xi + 500pp + folding map, illus, G+ (heavy damp-staining & fading to boards, bruising & damp staining to upper & lower spine extrems, ding to rear board lower edge, rear gutter sloppy, staining to fep, foxing), lacks d/w
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- Title
- The King's England: Devon: Cradle of our Seamen
- Author
- MEE, ARTHUR (Ed)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton 1938
- Keywords
- first edition ex library Arthur Mee England Devon towns cities villages history architecture tourism guidebook
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
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